While parliamentarians still test the thermometer on the subject, Deputy Rubens Pereira Júnior (PT-MA), who reported in the House the bill that flexes the requirements of the Clean Record Law, believes that the vetoes made by President Luiz Inácio Lula to the law approved by Congress will be overthrown by parliamentarians.
The changes approved by Congress reduce the time in which convicted are prevented from disputing the elections.
The parliamentarian compares the proceeding of the veto to the burial of the proposal of amendment to the Constitution (PEC) of the armor, which intended to place a series of obstacles for parliamentarians to be investigated.
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The PEC was approved by the House, but was the target of several demonstrations held in all the capitals of the country. Faced with popular pressure, the Senate voted to reject the proposal.
“After the shielding PEC everyone is afraid. I don’t think it knocks down,” Rubens said about Lula’s vetoes in the cleanser of the clean sheet.
The project that changed the clean record is authored by Deputy Dani Cunha (União-RJ) and was approved by the House in 2023. After going and goings, the initiative was approved by the Senate in early September. The rapporteur in the other Legislative House was Senator Weverton Rocha (PDT-MA).
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Both in the House, during the management of Arthur Lira (PP-AL) and the Senate, under the command of David Alcolumbre (Union-AP), the changes had the commitment of the presidents of the houses to be approved.
In the House, interlocutors of the president of the house, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB), discard a climate for the vetoes to be appreciated immediately. Allies, Motta said it is early to talk if the temperature is to bring down or keep the vetoes.
PDT leader in the House, Mario Heringer (MG), shares the rapporteur’s assessment in the House and points out difficulties for the veto to be overthrown.
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“Divided Congress, but after the PEC of prerogatives (armor) and the reaction of the streets, I find it difficult.”
Lula vetoed the alteration of the rule for the case of convicts in a final decision or rendered by a collegiate judicial body. Today, the eight years of prohibition of participation in electoral claims are counted from the execution of the sentence.
The Senate had changed the rule for the deadline to be met “from (…) conviction”, except in cases of crimes against the public administration, in which the count would continue from the execution of the sentence.
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Another vetoed point is the change in the beginning of ineligibility count from electoral representation by abuse of economic or political power. The Senate had decided that the eight years of punishment would be counted from the election in which the crime was.
